New Glarus High School Mock Trial to Participate in its 16th Regional Tournament
January 24, 2019

Photo courtesy of Dan Gartzke
New Glarus High School 2019 Mock Trial Team Members Back Row (L-R): Jenna Anderson, Annalee Kaiser, Luna Hakim, Heather Niceschwander, Ben Copeland, Anderson Justmann. Front Row (L-R): Ella Shaw, Lily Lounsbury, Stacy Benoy, Ellawyn Fong, Tessa Sheridan, Michael Schieldt, Merrick Fong. Missing: Callista Lahey.
The New Glarus High School Mock Trial team will compete in Madison, Wisconsin, on Saturday, February 9, 2019, in its sixteenth mock trial tournament. The students are responsible for mastering a manual with over 80 pages of rules and procedures, and 35 pages of witness statements, exhibits and legal standards before they compete against teams from across southern Wisconsin. They assume roles as either lawyers presenting the case and making arguments, or as witnesses who must make a convincing presentation of their facts. The witnesses are then cross examined by student attorneys from oth...
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